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[email protected] · April 30th 06, 06:46 PM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt,rec.aviation.soaring

"ADK" wrote:

I am looking into shipping an Orion kit from Europe to Western Canada
in
June or July.

Vaughn Simon suggested:

You might try posting that at rec.aviation.soaring. There always seems to
be gliders crossing the pond in one direction or another and sharing shipping
containers is not an uncommon subject there.

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remarked:
you mean they don't fly gliders across the pond?

AFAIK, no one has ever flown a glider accross the Atlantic in either
direction though NASA has flown them most of the way West to
East accross the Pacific from time to time.

This raises the question: What is the longest glider flight on record?

Here I mean in time, that is duration aloft, rather than distance as
the NASA record will be pretty hard for any private owner to beat.

Anything longer than about 14 hours would have to be ridge gliding,
flown pretty far North, or both.

Is there any official body that recognizes such a record?

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